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Check out Jane’s poem “Last Words”: Once the patient stops drinking liquids, he’s gotup to 14 days to live. If he takes even a sipof water, you reset the clock. Eleven days without a drop. The rabbimade his rounds. They stopped herIV and her oxygen. I asked themto please turn off the TV’s live feedto…
Full Moon on K Street: A New Anthology With Contributors from the Department
This new anthology celebrates DC and showcases several GW faculty members. Here is the official press release: Plan B Press proudly announces the publication of the new anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC. Featuring over one hundred contemporary poems, the book captures DC’s unique sense of place, from monuments to parks,…
Tickets to an Intimate Dinner with Toni Morrison on Sept. 21
By special arrangement with the folks organizing Toni Morrison’s upcoming campus visit (thank you, Prof. Evelyn Schreiber!), the English department has obtained several seats for undergraduates to attend a dinner with Prof. Morrison before her talk at Lisner Auditorium on Monday 9/21 at 8 p.m. This dinner is by invitation only and is for fewer…
Literary Studies Workshop
Dear English majors, Just a quick reminder that our new workshop series in Literary Studies (ENGL 701-10) is scheduled for later this month and early March. The first workshop, on Working with Archives and Electronic Resources, will meet on Wednesday February 27 between 7:00 and 8:30; it will feature Cathy Eisenhower from the Gelman Library,…
Poet Ed Skoog to Teach Poetry Writing Workshop
The English Department is pleased to announce that the 2009-2010 Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington will be the poet Ed Skoog, author of MISTER SKYLIGHT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). Skoog will teach ENGL 181, a poetry writing workshop, both semesters, and will helm a free creative writing workshop open to the Washington, D.C. community…
The Return of Jonathan Gil Harris
As students sunbathe in the last weeks of summer, professors feel the start of the new semester as an entirely different weather pattern. “The new semester has crashed with all the force of a tsunami. But sometimes it’s good to get wet,” said Professor Jonathan Gil Harris. This academic year is a complete change from…